About 7 km from Villarluengo is an area known as 'The Factories', which owes its name to that in this place, in the seventeenth century, a paper factory was built for which the strength of the waters of the river Guadalope. The paper factory went to the Bonet family of Villarluengo, which turned it into a textile factory, set up 24 looms and a production of strips (bands, which used to be worn around the hips), with the electric cable, First that there was in the province after the one of the capital, Teruel.
About the year 1870 they sell the factory to the family Artola de Villarluengo, the new owners acquire new machinery arriving until 46 looms, using wool of the abundant sheep of the region, which produced the expansion of the facilities creating two new factories, the production It reaches Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey. In order to wash the wool, the modern laundries of Casa Turú de Sabadell were installed, which meant a fortune for those times. With new facilities were born the factories of Up and Down, being called the old one, the one of Enmedio. For the outsiders, a 90-bed dormitory was used and the kitchen and cleaning workers did not leave more than at the weekend. For the residents a Chapel was erected in honor of Sta. Lucia and Virgin of the Rosary. Also a mixed school of the company was built, soon national, for about 50 children. As the girdles fell into disuse, work began on canvas for sacks and bags, saddlebags and finally on fabrics and threads, requiring a new renovation of the machinery. Factories closed in 1958.
Nowadays in the factory of 'Up' a fish farm was built, in the factory of 'Enmedio' it was raised with the same buildings a Hostel, called 'The Hostel of the Truchas', the factory of 'Down' is the same as when it closed.